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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CMS Made Simple 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Time for action - adding news items


  1. 1. In the admin console, click on Content | News.

  2. 2. Click Add Article.

  3. 3. Enter the Title of the news article, Summary text, and Content of the article.

  4. 4. Click on Submit.

  5. 5. Open the page Announcements to see the new article published. It should look as shown in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

You have published a new announcement in the admin console of your website. For the summary and content fields, the WYISWYG editor was automatically displayed. The difference between the first article added during installation and the article published by you is the link More at the end of the article. This link is only shown if the Summary field of the news article is filled. In this case, only the summary text of the article is shown on the page. If you click the More link, you can read the complete text of the news article. However, if you do not use the Summary field, then the whole Content of the news item is displayed in the summary view, and there...